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...could not distinguish between mad cow and scrapie, a threat to sheep but not humans. A federal appeals court ruled against the shepherds this month, and last week the flocks were seized. Why does it take so long to determine if they have been infected? The only way to confirm TSE is either by symptoms or by autopsy of the animals' brains. The problem is that the agent responsible for TSE is still unknown. The best way to learn whether an animal is infected is to inoculate brain material into a healthy lab mouse, then monitor the mouse...
...perfectly conscious of everything going on about him." LBJ apparently agreed. "It's like being naked in the middle of a blizzard with no one to even offer you a match to keep you warm--that's the vice presidency," he said. Though many accounts confirm that LBJ frequently walked around the White House naked, I don't think that's what he had in mind here. Even John Adams, famed for being related to beer maker Sam Adams Dark Lager, wrote, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention...
...search committee come from the business world, our "president-elect" was chosen by the smallest of constituencies. Harvard professors, the group that may be most impacted by the presidential choice, had no seats on the search committee. The alumni-elected Board of Overseers, which voted 18-0 to confirm the choice a week ago Sunday, was alerted of its emergency Manhattan meeting only days before it occurred and certainly had no opportunity to mull the ramifications of the search committee's choice...
McNamara said she could not confirm that officers had visited dorms...
...ABCC investigator could not confirm that the commission had voluntarily released the students' names to any Harvard agency. One student present during the ABCC sting said that the investigators had assured a Harvard student whose identification was confiscated that his name would not be released to the University...